Leadership and Management for Liberian Law Enforcement (DOS)

• Published date: 17 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31295
• Date: 17 September 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Deadline: Jan. 1, 2021.

Funds: $100 million for up to 50 awards.

Eligibility: States, outlying areas and Native American

tribal governments.

Areas: DOL said it expects that successful opioid

projects will accomplish the following: facilitate community

partnerships that are central to dealing with this complex

public health crisis; provide training that builds the skilled

workforce in professions that could impact the causes

and treatment of the opioid crisis, such as addiction

treatment, mental health and pain management; ensure

the timely delivery of the appropriate career, training

and supportive services to dislocated workers (including

displaced homemakers), individuals temporarily or

permanently laid off due to the opioid crisis, long-term

unemployed individuals and self-employed individuals

unemployed or significantly underemployed as a result

of the opioid public health emergency—including

individuals in these populations who have been

impacted by opioid use; and create temporary disaster-

relief employment that addresses the unique impacts of

the opioid crisis in affected communities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ETA-TEGL-4-18

Leadership and Management for Liberian Law

Enforcement (DOS)

Scope: The State Department’s Bureau of International

Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs seeks

applications for the Leadership and Management for

Liberian Law Enforcement announcement to develop

and implement an integrated training and mentoring

program for Liberian law enforcement that includes

aiding Liberian law enforcement entities to self-train.

Deadline: Oct. 26, 2020.

Funds: $2.5 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprofit

organizations.

Areas: DOS said the project calls for a team of highly

experienced law enforcement officers with experience

training to be deployed to Liberia to train and mentor the

identified cohorts of Liberian law enforcement.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# INL20CA0056AMELIBERIA

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Strengthening Corrections Institutions

in Liberia (DOS)

Scope: The State Department’s Bureau of International

Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs seeks applications

for the Strengthening Corrections Institutions in

Liberia announcement to have improved adherence to

standardized procedures, best practices and human

rights methods in targeted corrections facilities.

Deadline: Oct. 26, 2020.

Funds: $1 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprofit

organizations.

Areas: DOS said the project supports training

and mentoring among corrections staff at all levels

(executive, midlevel, and rank and file) and will also

support records management procedures that track

pretrial detainees and inmates, and the development

and implementation of standard operating procedures

that are applied systemwide to ensure human rights

standards and security.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# INL20CA0058AMELIBERIA

CORRECTIONS082520

Commuter Authority Rail Safety Improvement

Grants (DOT)

Scope: The Transportation Department’s Federal

Highway Administration seeks applications for the

Commuter Authority Rail Safety Improvement Grants

announcement to improve safety at public railway-

highway crossings.

Deadline: Oct. 26, 2020.

Funds: $50 million total.

Eligibility: State, local and regional entities.

Areas: DOT said the program provides one-time funding

to eligible entities for the construction of projects for the

elimination of hazards at railway-highway crossings.

Specific program goals include: improve safety at

railway-highway crossings through the elimination of

hazards at public railway-highway crossings; reduce

fatalities, serious injuries and crashes at public railway-

highway crossings; reduce the number of existing public

at-grade crossings by closure or grade separation;

and reduce delays or improve system performance by

eliminating hazards posed by blocked grade crossings

due to idling trains.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 693JJ320NF00005

Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities

to Environmental Stressors (EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency, as

part of its Science to Achieve Results program,

seeks applications for the Center for Early Lifestage

Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors to support a

transdisciplinary research center to better understand

potential causal relationships among cumulative

exposures to chemicals and nonchemical environmental

stressors during early life stages and modifying factors

that result in adverse developmental health effects.

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